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Metal By Numbers 1/4: New year, new Nine Inch

Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week.

It’s been two weeks, but Metal By Numbers is back with its first edition for 2017. If you’re at all familiar with how records sales and release schedules work or you just read this column a lot, it shouldn’t be a surprise that we have no new debuts for this week. The newest thing on here is the surprise Nine Inch Nails EP that dropped right before Christmas, which had a solid debut last week, but an ever better second week. It’ll be another week or so until the ball gets rolling again on here, but looking at the listings for metal in 2017, we’ll have plenty on the charts real soon. Stay tuned.

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A Pale Horse Named Death, the project featuring former Life Of Agony and Type O Negative members will release their new album When The World Becomes Undone on January 18th, 2019 via Long Branch Records/SPV. Today (14th), the group are streaming the new song “Vultures.” Check out the track below and pre-order the album here.

Blink-182’s Travis Barker’s Musink festival will return in March at the OC Fair & Event Center in Costa Mesa. The event is scheduled to run from March 8th-10th as Suicidal Tendencies and Limp Bizkit will be next year’s headliners. While we are still waiting for a third headliner to be announced, other acts include Hatebreed, […]

KoRn guitarist James “Munky” Shaffer joined Hyro the Hero onstage earlier this week (4th) during Hyro’s performance at the Viper Room in Los Angeles, CA. Shaffer’s surprise guest appearance was for the song “Devil In Disguise,” taken from Hyro’s latest effort Flagged Channel. Check out the fan-filmed clip below: [via Revolver]

It looks like Mastodon are working on their follow-up to 2017’s Emperor of Sand. Drummer/vocalist Brann Dailor shared an image via Instagram of himself and guitarist Bill Kelliher confirming new music is in the works. Check out the image below: View this post on Instagram […]

Machine Head’s Robb Flynn has revealed he will perform at Stars to the Rescue XXVIII, which is scheduled to be held on January 26, 2019 at Lesher Center for the Arts in Walnut Creek, CA. Flynn will have a 30 minute performance as he announced his participation in the below video: Tickets are available at […]